Los Ingobernables de Japon (Evil & Sanada) retained their IWGP heavyweight tag team championships in a physical match against CHAOS (Hirooki Goto & Kazuchika Okada) at the final show of New Japan Pro Wrestling's Road to New Beginning. The show, featuring the usual physical matches, furthered the feuds among top NJPW stars.

At the top of that upcoming show, in Osaka on February 10, at the Edion Arena Osaka, would be Sanada vowing to take away Kazuchika Okada's IWGP heavyweight championship.

The young lions started off the show with Narita pushing Liger before the bell. The match started off with Liger and Umino locking up. Liger put Umino in a heel hook and Narita and Yagi ran in to save Umino. Tiger Mask and Yagi tag into the match with Tiger Mask dominating Yagi with a series of kicks and other high impact moves.

Yagi delivered a dropkick and tagged to Narita while Kushida was tagged in and the pace of the match picked up. Narita put a Boston Crab on Kushida while the other two young lions block the veterans from coming into the ring. Kushida was able to kick off the Boston Crab and slapped on an armbar to get Narita to tap out. This was a simple match to kick off the show.

Oka repeatedly hit Hikuleo to start off the match. Yujiro tagged in and dominated Oka with his usual moves. Kevin Kelly said that Yujiro doesn't take risks during his matches and as a result he does the same moves night after night. Oka gave a spinebuster on Hikuleo and tagged in Tenzan. Tenzan dominated Hikuleo and gave him Mongolian chops. Oka delivered a great looking Judo throw on Hikuleo, which got a great reaction from the crowd. Yujiro hit a DDT for the win over Oka.

Winner: Bullet Club (Hikuleo & Yujiro Takahashi)

Match Rating: 4.5/10

Match 3: Katsuya Kitamura vs. Manabu Nakanishi

Kitamura is coming off a four match losing streak in his series of trial matches against the NJPW stars.

The two ran into each other with shoulder blocks and neither man went down. This happened a couple more times with neither man going down. On the final shoulder block Nakanishi got knocked down. Nakanishi baited Kitamura to go outside of the ring where Nakanishi dominated him outside. When the match returned into the ring Kitamura out powered Nakanishi and suplexed, and shoulder blocked him. Kitamura hit the spear for a near three count. Kitamura tried to whip Nakanishi into the ropes, which was reversed and allowed Nakanishi to dominate. Nakanishi applied the torture rack for the submission win.

This match made Kitamura look very strong but that he lacked the in-ring experience to get a win over Nakanishi.

Suzuki-gun attacked Rocky Romero, Sho and Yoh from behind. All six men brawled on the outside into the crowd with the ring announcer warning the fans to please watch out. The match slowed down when Kanemaru and Yoh engaged in some technical wrestling. Sho got tagged in and hurt his back trying to suplex Kanemaru. Kanemaru worked on Sho's back and did high impact moves. Rocky got tagged in and hit the forever clotheslines. Taka and Rocky had some great back and forth wrestling, which ended when Rocky won via pin fall with a backslide on Taka.

Yano threw his water at Juice Robinson before the bell. Finlay and White started off the match and White immediately tagged out to Yano. Juice got tagged in and dominated over Yano with punches. Ishii tagged in and delivered high impact moves on Juice. Henare tagged in and exchanged stiff punches and chops with Ishii.

White slowed down the pace of the match and dominated over Henare. Finlay and White faced off with high flying moves by Finlay. Finlay spit on White and did a series of fast paced and high flying moves. Henare, Finlay and Juice all ran into White who was standing in the corner. White put Henare in a crucifix hold and delivered multiple elbow strikes, which resulted in the referee stopping the match. This was a great visual ending to a match that got White over as a heel.

Makabe grabbed the microphone and challenged Minoru Suzuki for his Intercontinental championship. Suzuki did not respond and the match started with Suzuki and Makabe brawling into the crowd and out to the fan entrance of Korakuen hall. They brawled back to ringside area and exchanged some very stiff strikes. Suzuki choked Makabe with a chair and then hit him with the chair. Taichi hit Taguchi with the bell hammer.

Elgin suplexed Taichi and Iizuka and bit Iizuka on his head. Suzuki and Makabe exchanged multiple fast paced forearms with Makabe stunning Suzuki and whipping him into the corner. Suzuki sunk in a choke and Makabe pushed Suzuki into his corner, which allowed Taguchi to tag into the match. Suzuki locked in a heel hook on Taguchi for the win.

All men started the match brawling with Hiromu and Ospreay brawling in the entrance way, Yoshi-Hashi and Naito whipping each other into the guard rail, and Gedo and Bushi fighting inside the ring. Bushi choked Yoshi-Hashi with his shirt and put a step over crossface on him. Yoshi-Hashi got to the rope to force the break of the hold. Naito got tagged in and beat down Yoshi-Hashi in the ring corner. Naito delivered a very stiff sliding drop kick. Bushi and Hiromu double teamed Yoshi-Hashi and got a near fall.

Ospreay and Hiromu came in and the match pace quicken. The crowd was solidly behind the two as they exchanged back and forth moves. Yoshi-Hashi worked over Bushi and got a near fall. Naito and Hiromu ran into the ring to turn the momentum of the match in favour of Los Ingobernables de Japon with a double dropped kick to Yoshi-Hashi. Ospreay leaped over the top rope on to Naito and Hiromu. This allowed Yoshi-Hashi to nail Bushi with Karma for the three-count.

Gedo stole Bushi's mask and held up his two masks, one from last night and the other from this show. Yoshi-Hashi and Naito had a stare down, which ended up in a fight on the outside of the ring.

The crowd was split with chants for both Okada and Sanada as both men started off the match with chain wrestling. Okada did a back leg trip and Sanada quickly got up and both men went into the ropes. Goto and Okada double teamed Sanada who managed to tag Evil. Goto and Evil brawled on the outside with Evil putting a chair around Goto's head and running him into the ring post. Sanada and Evil frequently tagged in and out to cut off the ring and dominate Goto. Goto mounted a comeback with a lariat on Evil and tagged to Okada. Okada quicken the match pace by hitting a series of moves on Evil.

Sanada was tagged in and dived onto Okada who was outside of the ring and the two returned to the ring and exchanged high impact moves. Evil broke up a near pin fall when Goto and Sanada were legal men. Goto applied the sleeper hold to Sanada and Evil tried to break it up but Goto released the sleeper and hit Evil. Goto and Sanada traded forearm blows and Sanada exploded with a dropkick. Evil delivered a hard clothesline on Goto for a near fall. Goto headbutts Evil and attempted to kick Evil but Evil caught his leg and hit a fisherman buster. Evil headbutts Goto and clothesline him for a near fall that was broken up by Okada. Evil hit Everything is Evil for the win.

Sanada grabbed the microphone and said that he is going to take Okada's title. Evil took the microphone and said he is stronger than Goto.